Name (optional) Email (optional) Phone (optional) Thank you for taking our survey. All fields are optional. We’d love for you to answer every question, but are grateful for any and all input. This is not a strict study, but more of a preliminary survey to test the waters for further study. To that end, it would be helpful to have your name and contact information so that we might pursue your experience in more depth. However, we do not require that you identify yourself. In either case, all results of the survey will be kept anonymous unless you give us explicit permission to use your name. I give ASC my permission to identify my name with my answers. Yes, permission granted No, please keep my answers anonymous I give ASC my permission to contact me in regards to this survey Yes No SECTION 1 Are you a Christian? Yes No If No, how would you describe your religious, spiritual, or metaphysical viewpoint? Which best describes the type of institution at which you work? Higher Education – Christian Higher Education – State or Secular Other If Other, please explain: Which best describes your role at that institution? Faculty Admnistration other Feel free to specify: For each of the following statements, please check the answer that best matches your position: Christian faith is personal and has little or no bearing on public life. strongly agree agree disagree strongly disagree This doesn't feel like a relevant question to my life Education in a pluralistic setting (i.e., modern society) must exclude religious presuppositions. strongly agree agree disagree strongly disagree This doesn't feel like a relevant question to my life Education in a pluralistic setting (i.e., modern society) should take religious presuppositions into account. strongly agree agree disagree strongly disagree This doesn't feel like a relevant question to my life When I hear "Christian faith" or "religious presuppositions" I think evangelism or proselytization a way of thinking about all of life both neither Comment: SECTION 2 To what degree does your faith influence the way you think about your academic discipline? They are completely separate in my mind Very little Some All the time Not applicable If applicable, please describe how your faith influences your thinking about your academic discipline: To what degree does your faith influence the way you practice your academic discipline, whether teaching or serving in some other capacity? They are completely separate in my mind Very little Some All the time Not applicable If applicable, please describe how your faith influences the practice of your academic discipline: If there is a discrepancy between your thinking and your practice, what accounts for that discrepancy? (If no discrepancy, please type N). SECTION 3 Is your institution's public stance that it is committed to teaching or forming the whole person? Not at all Very little Somewhat Very I don't think my institution thinks in those terms How would your institution describe its own telos (i.e., purpose, goal, or end)? How would it define success? How do you think your institution would answer the question, "What type of person (i.e. graduate) are you trying to form?" How would you answer that same question? What is the overarching telos (i.e., purpose, goal, or end) of your life? SECTION 4 Which best describes your institution's attitude toward religious convictions informing academic work? Explicitly forbids it Implicitly discourages it Does not care one way or the other Implicitly encourages it Explicitly expects it Please elaborate: Have you noticed any change in your institution's attitude toward religious convictions in the past 5-10 years, one way or another? Yes: trending toward more openness toward religious dialogue Yes: trending toward less openness toward religious dialogue I don't sense any trends or changes Please elaborate: To what degree would you say that higher education in its current form cultivated human flourishing? Not at all A little, but not enough Adequately Very well Explain your answer: In what ways do you think that the landscape of higher education is changing (demographically, geographically, ideologically, financially, etc.)? What emphases have changed in the last 5-10 years in higher education (e.g., more or less on skill, knowledge, wisdom, character, job preparedness, ideology, etc.) In your opinion, who should pursue higher education and for what purpose? Do you find anything troubling in the direction that higher education as a whole, or your institution specifically, is moving? Do you find anything particularly positive in the direction that higher education as a whole, or your institution specifically, is moving? What aspects of learning do you feel are largely neglected by higher education as we know it today? Please explain. What opportunities do you see for Christians to speak into these changes in redemptive ways? If there anything else you would like to say in regards to this survey, we'd love to hear your thoughts: THANK YOU! Submit Δ Share this:TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmailPrintLike this:Like Loading...
